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The Purple Plain

BBC One
on BBC One London

[Starring] Gregory Peck
Continuing a season of films starring one of the great names of Hollywood. Today with Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Brenda de Banzie
1945: in the sweltering heat of the Burmese jungle, the officers and men of an RAF station are increasingly disturbed by the strange behaviour of Squadron Leader Forrester. After meeting Anna, a beautiful Burmese girl, Forrester is seemingly a changed man. But his life is to take a nightmare turn when a routine flight is struck by disaster.
Gregory Peck is the embittered Forrester in this powerful adaptation of H. E. Bates's novel.
FILMS: page 16

Contributors

From the novel by:
H.E. Bates
Screenplay:
Eric Ambler
Producer:
John Bryan
Director:
Robert Parrish
Forrester:
Gregory Peck
Anna:
Win Min Than
Dr Harris:
Bernard Lee
Blore:
Maurice Denham
Mr Phang:
Ram Gopal
Miss McNab:
Brenda De Banzie
Carrington:
Lyndon Brook
Aldridge:
Anthony Bushell
Sgt Brown:
Jack McNaughton
Navigator Williams:
Harold Siddons
Flight Lieutenant:
Peter Arne
Dorothy:
Mya Mya Spencer
Mrs Forrester:
Josephine Griffin
Radio operator:
Lane Meddick
Burmese jeweller:
John Tinn
Old woman in jewellers:
Soo Ah Song
Nurse:
Dorothy Alison
Source: Radio Times

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